Madame Bovary
Subtitle: moeurs de province
By: par Gustave Flaubert
Series: Collection Michel Lévy; Collection Michel Lévy
Publisher: Michel Lévy frères ; Typ. de M** Ve Dondey-Dupré
Published: 1857
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 490
Subjects: French fiction; Specimens
Notes: The first book-form edition of Madame Bovary, originally serialized in La revue de Paris in 1856; first state of the dedication leaf, giving "Senart"; lacking the publisher's catalog.

Rare Book copy: Original printed paper wrappers, cut down and laid onto green paper, bound in before half-titles.

Rare Book copy: Near-contemporary quarter blue cloth binding, light brown morocco labels, marbled boards.

Rare Book copy: Unidentified armorial bookplates on leading pastedowns.

Rare Book copy: From the library of Charles George Milnes Gaskell (1842-1919), with his armorial bookplate on leading pastedown of volume 2.